Propaganda

11/28/2010

The President's Farcical Deficit Commission (NCFRR) caught my attention today while perusing The Alton Telegraph. The AP article, "Tax break for employer health plan a target again," commanded my attention. I wondered if there might be something in the article giving a clue as to the path toward the single-payer, socialized medicine dream of the left... a dream shared by candidate Obama (at least as he spoke to union members). I was not thinking "deficit commission" when I began to read the article. I was looking for the source of the proposed elimination of the "tax break," which would obviously help the statist realize his dream.

The president of the SEIU must not have gotten much training before she succeeded Andy Stern because her quote sounds like she is more concerned about her members than with the agenda of the elitist left.

Tampering with health care tax breaks is "a terrible step in the wrong direction," said Mary Kay Henry, the new president of the Service Employees International Union, which represents many hospital workers. "We want the middle class stabilized, not destabilized."

It is nice that Comrade Obama has the tax revenue to finance his endless campaign activities. That is, after all what 52.7% of the voters in the last Presidential election said they were simply craving. The FFT (Feckless Fifty-Two point seven percent) elected a man to campaign for the passage of legislation and government incursions that comprise the subject matter which inspires every statist's nocturnal emissions. The reader of TOTUS, who cannot get out a sentence without the benefit of another man's script, is suited for nothing other than spokes-model for the statist propaganda.

To allow certain newspapers to be treated as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code.

This is ingenious! Rep. Maloney, spawn of Helen, has realized that the traditional sources of Dimocrat propaganda cannot compete with unbiased sources of actual information. In typical lib fashion, Maloney proposes a welfare program to support entities such as the New Yor Slimes.

06/22/2009

Some days the news is depressing. Some days the news is outlandish. Some days the news is funny. Every day the news about President Barack Obama leads a rational person to wonder if the "reporters" are auditioning to be replace the bumbling fool that currently attempts to be his spokesman.

At least Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have been out of the headlines recently. What is wrong with the Nevada electorate? If they are not careful they will become as embarrassing as the electorate to which I belong (Illinois.) No need to wonder about the mental state of those that consistently vote for the queen of excessive face lifts, as she represents San Francisco. The San Francisco 49ers (up until the mid to late 90s) provided some redeeming value.

It is hard to imagine any of the greatest comedy writers of the last century being able build the sort of unsavory, bumbling, dishonest, clownish, and artificial characters as those who currently populate the leadership of our government.

"Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us."

It should come as no surprise that his legacy is apparently being continued on behalf of the former occupant of the fictional Office of The President-Elect Barack Obama. The reason that this should surprise no one is that it is a carry over from the media's misinformation campaign that helped him ascend to the highest office in the land while preying on the electorate's lethargy and lack of attention to detail.

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush's unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government.

"What an opportunity we have to change this country," the Democrat told his senior staff after his inauguration. "The American people are really counting on us now. Let's make sure we take advantage of it."

In the highly scripted first days of his administration, Obama overturned a slew of Bush policies with great fanfare. He largely avoided cultural issues; the exception was reversing one abortion-related policy, a predictable move done in a very low-profile way.

I suppose the idea is to have a catchy headline and trust that it will be sufficient to direct the opinion of the reader in the desired manner. At least this article didn't devolve into the type of glowing description of Obama's "chiseled pecs" that one would expect from The Obamost's Eli Saslow. Still there was plenty of salivating over the new leader of our nation, including a comparison to Superman:

"It's as if Superman stepped out of a phone booth and became Clark Kent," said Fred Greenstein, a Princeton University professor emeritus of politics. "He's beginning to put aside the rhetoric in favor of listing the policies and doing the checklist. He's not going out of his way to show a lot of flash. It's much more lets-get-down-to-work."

A biological process comes to mind... regurgitation.

The article eventually gets to another divisive little issue, the executive order to close Guantonomo Bay, but national security is minor. Innocent life is minor. These "wedge issues" are not significant enough to be considered truly divisive when there is an economy to bring under government control, I mean "fix." Gushing reports on the new president's style, body, and ability to deliver practiced or read lines drown out the reality of the economic "fix", which is its basic idiocy! "The Great One" Mark Levin aptly states that the supposed stimulus is little more than pork. What isn't pork can be best classified as wealth redistribution or pay-offs to special interest groups. What intellectually honest person can say that the economy can be better stimulated with pork, pay-offs, and wealth redistribution by the liberal government than allowing individuals, families, and companies to keep and therefore decide how to spend, their own money? It is a good thing "Big Brother" Barry has the traditional media to gloss over the pesky details on his behalf, otherwise more people might see what is going on.

At least Obama will repair our "battered world image" provided the rest of the world believes the headlines provided by Barack's own "Baghdad Bob." I guess it will also help that he has taxpayers once again footing the bill to export abortions and that he will be returning terrorists to their battlegrounds. The AP can learn a great deal from the man who claimed:

"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any
place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are
trying to sell to the others an illusion."